In 1990, The Daughter of Time was voted number one in The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time list compiled by the British Crime Writers\" Association. In 1995 it was voted number four in The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time list compiled by the Mystery Writers of America....

Inspired by the life of Woolf\"s lover, Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is the stunning tale of a 300-year-old poet. Against the backdrop of some of the most important moments of history, the titular character begins his life as a rowdy nobleman who delights in enjoying the privileges his status affords him....

A play ought to be written in which people should come and go, dine, talk of the weather or play cards... because that is what happens in real life - Anton Chekhov Chekhov demolished the conventions of traditional Russian theatre and created something new that proved hugely influential....

Is anyone incorruptible? The inhabitants of Sulaco (a port in the fictional South American state of Costaguana) believe that head longshoreman, Nostromo, is just that. Entrusted to take the local mine\"s silver to safety when a revolt threatens the town, he sets sail, only to run into trouble....

Jim was first mate on the Patna, when the ship and passengers were abandoned by the crew in the Red Sea. Accused of cowardice, Jim immerses himself in work on a remote colonial trading post yet, despite the localsa€ high regard for him, the guilt of the Patna remains....

It is 1840 in a fictional town called Cranford and change is in the air. The Industrial Revolution is just around the corner and with it will come the railway. Life will never be the same again. Elizabeth Gaskell\"s 1853 novel is a lively and affectionate portrait of a town in mid-Victorian England very like the one where she grew up....

In this stunning tale of self-discovery and female emancipation, the young woman Edna Pontellier works to regain control over her own life and escape the shackles society has placed on her. Not content with being defined merely as a wife and mother, she seeks to escape her stifling marriage and discover the passions of love with another man....

The Professor was Charlotte Bronte\"s first novel, completed as early as 1846. The central character is the reserved William Crimsworth, an English teacher at an all-girls\" school in Brussels who falls in love with one of his own pupils....

On the bleak streets of Dublin, a young boy grieves over the death of an irreligious priest, a woman elopes with her lover, and a professor considers the nature of death: these are some of the unfortunate denizens of James Joyce\"s imagination....

Edith Whartons novella Ethan Frome (1911) is a classic of American literature. Mattie Silver, a young and guileless girl, is hired to keep house on the bleak New England farm belonging to Ethan Frome and his sickly wife Zeena, who is her cousin....

A new edition to the Arcturus classic fiction line, Bleak House is arguably Dickens\" most accomplished novel, blending an enjoyable story with a relevant societal critique. As orphaned Esther journeys to the home of her appointed guardian, Mr. Jarndyce, she meets his two other wards, Ada and Richard....

Since its first appearance in 1871-2, Middlemarch has been hailed by successive generations of writers and readers for its authentic view of life in a small English town in the run-up to the Reform Bill of 1832....

Little Women tells the brilliant tale of the four March sisters, sensible Meg, tomboyish Jo, timid Beth and artistic Amy. As their father goes off to fight in the Civil War, they must acclimatise to their recent poverty and begin to navigate the adult world....

At first glance, Nora Helmer appears to live the perfect life. She is married to the ambitious banker Torvald and is well provided for. But when she is blackmailed by one of her husband\"s colleagues, she is forced to re-examine her life along with her role as a frivolous, scatter-brained wife....

A woman receives two severed ears in a cardboard box, a government-worker is found dead on the London Underground, and two men go insane in a Cornish cottage. In His Last Bow, the world\"s favourite eccentric sleuth investigates a series of compelling mysteries....